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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Traill, PhD Candidate Southern Ocean biogeochemistry, University of Tasmania Elizabeth Shadwick In a world affected by climate change, the Southern Ocean plays an outsized role. It absorbs up to 40% of the human-caused emissions taken up by the oceans while also being home to some of ... <a title="An underwater observatory keeping the pulse of the Southern Ocean for nearly 30 years yields fresh results" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/an-underwater-observatory-keeping-the-pulse-of-the-southern-ocean-for-nearly-30-years-yields-fresh-results-257467/" aria-label="Read more about An underwater observatory keeping the pulse of the Southern Ocean for nearly 30 years yields fresh results">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Fuller, Clinical Trials Director, Department of Endocrinology, RPA Hospital, University of Sydney Parents are often told fruit is “bad” because it contains sugar, prompting concerns about how much fruit they should allow their child to eat. This message has been fuelled by the “sugar-free” movement, which ... <a title="Should I limit how much fruit my child eats because it contains sugar?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/should-i-limit-how-much-fruit-my-child-eats-because-it-contains-sugar-257622/" aria-label="Read more about Should I limit how much fruit my child eats because it contains sugar?">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ekant Veer, Professor, University of Canterbury Tibrina Hobson/Getty Images When a scandal goes viral – as it recently did for the former chief executive of IT company Astronomer at a Coldplay concert – companies face nuanced challenges in a new era of crisis communication. The clip of ... <a title="How should a company deal with a scandal like the Coldplay kiss cam? Here’s what we learned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/how-should-a-company-deal-with-a-scandal-like-the-coldplay-kiss-cam-heres-what-we-learned-262112/" aria-label="Read more about How should a company deal with a scandal like the Coldplay kiss cam? Here’s what we learned">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney Anthony Albanese’s recent visit to Chengdu’s panda breeding base showed the enduring power of China’s panda diplomacy. China has been sending pandas to other countries, sometimes for obviously political reasons, since ... <a title="How China’s pandas became its most valuable diplomats – and its vulnerable children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/how-chinas-pandas-became-its-most-valuable-diplomats-and-its-vulnerable-children-261845/" aria-label="Read more about How China’s pandas became its most valuable diplomats – and its vulnerable children">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Doubleday, Marine Ecologist and ARC Future Fellow, University of South Australia Great Southern Reef Foundation, CC BY-SA Every year off the South Australian coast, giant Australian cuttlefish come together in huge numbers to breed. They put on a technicolour display of blue, purple, green, red and ... <a title="The giant cuttlefish’s technicolour mating display is globally unique. The SA algal bloom could kill them all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/the-giant-cuttlefishs-technicolour-mating-display-is-globally-unique-the-sa-algal-bloom-could-kill-them-all-262108/" aria-label="Read more about The giant cuttlefish’s technicolour mating display is globally unique. The SA algal bloom could kill them all">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tamara Lewit, Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne Photo by Engin Akyurt/Pexels If you slipped back through time to taste a dish from the Roman Empire, you’d likely be sampling some fermented fish sauce. Surviving Roman recipes add this to anything ... <a title="Take fish, salt in vats, leave in sun for months: why ancient Romans loved fermented fish sauces like garum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/take-fish-salt-in-vats-leave-in-sun-for-months-why-ancient-romans-loved-fermented-fish-sauces-like-garum-260808/" aria-label="Read more about Take fish, salt in vats, leave in sun for months: why ancient Romans loved fermented fish sauces like garum">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia’s population has shrunk to 264,596 over the past six years, the latest census, conducted in April and May 2025, has revealed. This compares to the previous census, conducted in 2019, which recorded a population of 271,400 in the French Pacific territory. To explain the ... <a title="New Caledonia’s population drops to below 265,000, census reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/new-caledonias-population-drops-to-below-265000-census-reveals/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s population drops to below 265,000, census reveals">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christoph Nedopil, Director Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University CUHRIG/Getty Australia has flourished as an export powerhouse for decades. Much of this prosperity has been driven by the nation’s natural endowment with two important raw products for producing steel the traditional way: iron ore and metallurgical coal. Worth ... <a title="China’s greening steel industry signals an economic reality check for Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/chinas-greening-steel-industry-signals-an-economic-reality-check-for-australia-261863/" aria-label="Read more about China’s greening steel industry signals an economic reality check for Australia">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Jane Archer, Senior Lecturer, Communication, Edith Cowan University Narong Khueankaew/Shutterstock The Austalian government has confirmed video-sharing platform YouTube will be included in the upcoming social media ban for children aged 16 and under. In recent days, the platform – owned by Google – attempted to persuade ... <a title="Should YouTube be included in Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16? We asked 5 experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/should-youtube-be-included-in-australias-social-media-ban-for-kids-under-16-we-asked-5-experts-262046/" aria-label="Read more about Should YouTube be included in Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16? We asked 5 experts">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edward C. Holmes, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Professor of Virology, University of Sydney peterschreiber.media/Getty Images In late June, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a group of independent experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO), published an assessment of the origins ... <a title="How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/how-conspiracy-theories-about-covids-origins-are-hampering-our-ability-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-261475/" aria-label="Read more about How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heather McGinness, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Heather McGinness/CSIRO, CC BY-NC-ND Every year, nomadic Australian waterbirds fly vast distances to find food and the perfect nesting site. They have to be good at finding not just water, but the right kind of water. But across much of Australia, ... <a title="We used tiny sensors in backpacks to discover the extraordinary ways birds migrate to find water" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/we-used-tiny-sensors-in-backpacks-to-discover-the-extraordinary-ways-birds-migrate-to-find-water-259988/" aria-label="Read more about We used tiny sensors in backpacks to discover the extraordinary ways birds migrate to find water">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marianne Fenech, Professor, Early Childhood Governance, University of Sydney Pancake Pictures/ Getty Images Federal parliament is debating the Albanese government’s bill to strip funding from childcare centres if they are unsafe. It follows a string of recent reports and allegations of significant safety and abuse problems in ... <a title="The new childcare bill relies on something going wrong to keep kids ‘safe’. Here’s what else we should do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/30/the-new-childcare-bill-relies-on-something-going-wrong-to-keep-kids-safe-heres-what-else-we-should-do-261851/" aria-label="Read more about The new childcare bill relies on something going wrong to keep kids ‘safe’. Here’s what else we should do">Read more</a>
